The poems Belfast Confetti and At The Border are very similar and different at the same time. Belfast Confetti is based in Ireland (Belfast) during the time of the civil war. This was the era of Irish nationalist terrorism that marked UK social and political life from the 1970s to the 1990s.  The conflict was mainly a religious and political one. This poem is in first person and explains the persons feelings using punctuation language.  The man in the poem is facing his own conflict in his head due to the conflict going on around him. He is trying to go home to be safe what we call a safe haeven, the place he feels most safe in, but the surrounding conflict had him going insane in  his head.

Whereas in the poem At The Border, the conflict is about a country fighting each other over reasons to do with religion and politics. In this poem, it tells us about a life of a young girl who had to migrate to a country next to her original country iraq. She migrated to a country called kurdistan  to get away for all the violence there was in her country iraq, but what this poem is trying to show is the journey she makes with the remaining of her family back to iraq from kurdistan after the civil war ended. She wasnt alone with her family, the poem mentions ” dozens of families waited in the rain”. This helps us understand that it wasnt only this girl and her family who were migrating back to their